Fatty Acids in Blue-Green Algal Mat Communities
- 16 April 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 148 (3668) , 373-374
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.148.3668.373
Abstract
The concentrations of the major fatty acids were determined for the varied layers of an algal mat community. The living mat contains substantial amounts of the unsaturated acids, while the underlying layers become progressively depleted in unsaturated molecules. A similar progressive increase in the ratio of saturated to unsaturated acids was detected in a sediment core from a hypersaline lagoon.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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